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I Can Read! An Environmental Print Book

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Here's a book of environmental print pictures - including familiar stores, characters, movie logos, toys and restaurants! Use this to give your pre-readers success and confidence. It will also help them make the connection between speech and print.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten

Types:

Flash Cards, Printables

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How Do You Feel Emotions Feelings Activity

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

This quick and fun activity helps the children build their feelings vocabulary! Great for morning meeting, this activity gives your students a chance to check in emotionally. Place the cards in a pocket chart and give students a mini popsicle stick

Subjects:

Vocabulary, School Counseling, Back to School

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Activities

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141

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Dinosaur Word Wall Cards

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Here are the word wall cards I use for my Dinosaur theme. I glue them to a poster board, decorate it with dinosaur stickers and laminate it for durability. My students then use it to help them with their writing! This is especially good for my ELL

Subjects:

Science, Writing

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Word Walls

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Digital Download PDF (0.42 MB)

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Turkey Disguise Homework Project

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Turkey Disguise Homework Project: This is the letter I send home for our November Turkey in Disguise Homework Project. My students and their families always come up with such creative ideas! I hope your students enjoy it as much as mine always do!

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Other (Arts), Thanksgiving

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Activities, Homework

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102

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St. Patrick's Day Activities Leprechaun Visit and Traps

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

St. Patrick's Day Leprechaun Visit: Here's a how-to guide for pulling off a magical leprechaun visit to your classroom! With 3 writing prompts, a parent letter for a leprechaun trap, scavenger hunt clues and lots of tips for creating "magic" in the

Subjects:

Creative Writing, St. Patrick's Day

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Activities, Homework

FREE

Digital Download PDF (3.69 MB)

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Back To School Raccoon Rhyming Game

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Back To School Raccoon Rhymes: a fun matching activity for phonological awareness! Students match the rhyming pictures and then complete a cut & paste worksheet! These cards can be used in small group or as an independent center. These cards are

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Back to School

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Activities, Printables, Centers

CCSS:

RF.K.2, RF.K.2a

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Digital Download PDF (3.29 MB)

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Spring Insects CCVC Word Game

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

This is a fun game to play with your students to reinforce reading those CCVC words! Playing this whole group game gives your students fun extra practice with reading words with beginning consonant blends. There are 32 cards in the game so there are

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Spring

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Activities, Games

CCSS:

RF.K.3, RF.K.3a, RF.K.4, RF.1.3, RF.1.4

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Digital Download PDF (1.71 MB)

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Little Miss Muffet Emergent Reader Nursery Rhyme

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

This sample is from my Nursery Rhyme Literacy Pack. It includes all of the activities for the Little Miss Muffet nursery rhyme! Learning nursery rhymes is easy and engaging with these activities - great for shared reading, or a poetry unit too!

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Poetry

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Printables, Literature Circles, Centers

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Digital Download PDF (5.19 MB)

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Digraphs Read & Write the Room Activity

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

This is a Fox themed literacy game to encourage fluency with initial digraphs! This Read the Room activity will have your students practicing reading and writing digraphs words in a fun way! This goes great with the "What Does The Fox Say"

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Spelling

Grades:

1^st

Types:

Activities, Flash Cards, Centers

CCSS:

RF.1.3a

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Digital Download PDF (3.11 MB)

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Read and Write the Room with ou/ow Dipthongs

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Here's a fun freebie for your students to practice reading and writing ou/ow words. Corresponds to the spelling words for "Tippy-toe Chick, Go!" and "Mole and the Baby Bird" from Scott Foresman's 1st grade Reading Street series. Related Products•

Subjects:

Reading, Spelling, Spring

Grades:

1^st

Types:

Activities, Flash Cards, Centers

CCSS:

RF.1.3g

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Digital Download PDF (3.24 MB)

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Fun Farewells - Creative Ways to Say Good-bye

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Jazz up your end of day routine with these fun farewell rituals! I use these with my own students, to add a rhyming good-bye to the end of the day. I have them posted by my back door and as each child leaves he/she chooses a farewell for me to say

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Classroom Management, Oral Communication

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten

Types:

Activities, Printables, Posters

CCSS:

RF.K.2a

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Digital Download PDF (1.95 MB)

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FREE Love Splat Craftivity

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Here's a fun craftivity to go along with the book "Love Splat" by Rob Scotton. It is perfect for Valentine's Day! You can incorporate some writing too by having your students write on Splat's heart. My students are going to be writing their own 4

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Arts & Music, Valentine's Day

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Activities

FREE

Digital Download PDF (0.48 MB)

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Back To School Game with School Supplies

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Great for Back to School, this school supply version of I Have Who Has? is a great way to teach the game format! This is a big help for ELL students or kindergartners, to help build school vocabulary! It is a short, fun game perfect for an ice

Subjects:

Reading, Oral Communication, Back to School

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Activities, Games

CCSS:

RF.K.1a, RF.K.1b, RF.K.1c, RF.K.3c

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Digital Download PDF (1.54 MB)

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Free End of Year Award Certificates with Monkeys

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

This is a set of fun award certificates you can give your students at the end of the year! I hope you enjoy them!

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Math, Science

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Printables

FREE

Digital Download PDF (1.23 MB)

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Thanksgiving CVC Word Match Up

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Here's a fun Thanksgiving Word Family Game to help your students practice reading CVC words! Each Mayflower has a word family on it, your students must read the Pilgrim and turkey cards and place them with the correct Mayflower. There are 8 word

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Thanksgiving

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Flash Cards, Games, Centers

FREE

Digital Download PDF (2.78 MB)

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Rhyming Chants and Fingerplays

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Rhyming Songs and Chants for Phonological Awareness: 18 brightly colored rhyming fingerplays. I've compiled these rhymes to use during transitions, or an introduction to lessons on rhyming! Rhyming is an essential skill, and can takes lots of

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Classroom Management, Back to School

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten

Types:

Printables, Classroom Forms, Posters

CCSS:

RF.K.2, RF.K.2a

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Digital Download PDF (4.60 MB)

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Rhyming Morning Greetings

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Rhyming Greetings for the classroom! Here are 10 fun rhyming ways to say good morning to your students! Each has a picture cue so students can indicate which one they want you to use as your greet them each morning! This is great for exposing your

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Classroom Management, Back to School

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Activities, Printables, Posters

FREE

Digital Download PDF (0.25 MB)

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Free Dinosaur Themed Writing Paper

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Here's a fun dinosaur themed writing paper that I used during my Dinosaur Unit! My kiddos enjoyed picking their favorite one and writing dinosaur facts! If you enjoy this freebie, please consider following my blog, Herding Kats In Kindergarten @

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Worksheets, Printables

FREE

Digital Download PDF (0.42 MB)

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FREE Summer ABC Order

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Here's a fun freebie where students can practice putting summer themed words in ABC order. This is perfect for students who get finished early or whenever you need a few minutes to finish up report cards or grading! School's almost out and summer is

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Spelling, Vocabulary

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Worksheets, Activities

FREE

Digital Download PDF (0.13 MB)

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First Day of School Editable Handprint Poem Craft

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

This editable file is for a First Day of School poem that you can personalize with your students' names, the school name, location and year, as well as grade level. Once you print the personalized pages out, students add their handprints to create a

Subjects:

Arts & Music, Back to School, Poetry

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten

Types:

Activities, Printables

FREE

Digital Download PDF (6.70 MB)

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I've taught Pre-K, Kindergarten and 1st grade in a Title I school for several years. I create my materials to suit the needs of my students - to challenge my high achievers and support those that need more practice in a skill. I also create for my early childhood colleagues - to fill needs in their classrooms!

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Hands on learning and exploration through play!

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won 1st place in the Playmobil Teachers Grant Program for 2011. (go to this site to see my winning lesson: http://store.playmobilusa.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-US-Site/en_US/Link-Page?cid=GEWINNER_TEACHERS_GRANT_2011)

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Bachelor's in Early Childhood Education Master's in Literacy

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